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Weather isn't climate.
What is climate if not long term weather patterns?
Is the claim that the left controls the weather patterns.
My point was simply to point out the hypocrisy here. When a climate denier says, it's cold today so climate change isn't happening, we mock them for not understanding. This meme is making that same mistake.
It isn't though. More extreme weather is one of the predicted effects of global warming, and there's research showing it. https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/attribution-science-field-explosion-2010s-climate-change.html
Being able to cause a stronger than normal hurricane does not mean one is capable of controlling the climate.
Micro vs macro.
Memes like this and the endless defense of them have broken any illusions I had that the left is significantly more intelligent than the right.
It's a team circle jerk that is aggressively defended because the self pleasure is more important than the messaging.
I'm sorry that climate systems are too complicates and nuanced for you to understand. Cope.
Your refusal to see my point of view on this isn't the win you think it is.
Yeah I stopped having any good faith once the enlightened centrist went "the left and their factual research is just as bad as the right and their literal conspiracy theories" now time to see how to mute threads in lemmy